We Need to Prepare for Tomorrow’s AI Job Impacts Now Posted on : Aug 21 - 2021

There is a fair bit of uncertainty over the impacts that AI will have on people and their jobs. Multiple future pathways beckon, different eventualities exist, and humans embody the ultimate wildcard: The freedom to choose. But in the assessment of AI expert Neil Sahota, significant changes are already baked into the equation, and there is little time to lose.

Sahota has lots of eggs in lots of baskets. As the Chief Innovation Officer and a lecturer at the University of California Irvine School of Law, Sahota studies the intersection of AI and legal matters. He is an advisor to the United Nations, where he counsels the organization on its “AI for good” initiatives. He also carries the title of master inventor at IBM, where he led business development at the Watson Group.

In Sahota’s view, we’ve just begun the scrape the surface of the predictive power of AI, which will unleash major changes in how we live and what we do. As a species, we have the ability to adapt, Sahota says, and we should be using our time today to prepare for the changes that are coming. Unfortunately, in many respects, we’re falling behind the predictive eight ball.

“The rate of change is getting faster,” Sahota tells in a recent interview. “That’s the big challenge that we have. I think people don’t realize the acceleration in the rate of change that’s actually going to occur.” View More